Michelle Stolerman Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, CA, US

Partner Content Experiences Delivering feeds & integrations that enable the discovery of Disney & Hulu content on partner devices via configurable and scalable service-side platforms.

Santa Monica, CA, US

Content Management, Experience Management Tools, Partner Content Syndication

El Segundo, CA, US

• Managed metadata vendor relationships and integration efforts for Entertainment Systems (Gracenote, Rovi, Common Sense Media, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB); providing technical insight into daily operations, scope, quality.
• Streamlined communication with metadata vendors to ensure on-time and accurate delivery of new metadata for high priority business initiatives
• Analyzed product and media system workflows for Linear, VOD, OTT platforms to troubleshoot poster/metadata coverage issues and identify bottlenecks in order to apply efficient short-term workarounds, while also.
• Improved poster coverage on linear and VOD content from 55% to 75% from March 2016 to June 2016.
• Increased season/episode metadata coverage by 58% from March 2016 to June 2016.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Established the business and functional requirements for the music operations platform, processes and content management system to build Flipagram’s new music clip catalog and associated tools.
• Defined the building of an automated ingestion pipeline that managed weekly ingestion of hundreds of thousands of songs.
• Delivered detailed requirements and business logic for a catalog rights management system that ensured contractual compliance with international licenses from labels and publishers for clip use.
• Involved in full lifecycle of establishing partnerships with labels and publishers from contractual negotiations and reviewing content contracts for operational, reporting, security, and product requirements through to.
• Removed technical impediments to contract negotiations by drafting Flipagram’s White Paper and facilitating engineering technical due diligence.
• Reduced litigation risk for the business by creating documentation and strategy to meet contractual obligations.

• Dedicated point of contact for more than 25 distribution partners including Universal, Warner, Sony, and numerous large Indies, as well as continued support for internal teams.
• Identified systematic data integrity issues affecting Myspace Music catalog, ingestion processing problems and gaps in the content management toolset. Provided requirements for new tool features to enhance processing.
• Controlled content management from the point content agreements were executed. Facilitated process for receiving and ingesting new content and metadata from partners, which included: FTP setup, deliver, XML mapping.
• Triaged and independently resolved reported issues using the proprietary MySpace Music SQL-based content management tools (metadata, rights management, media processing status, errors logs), reducing need for.
• Spearheaded and managed high-impact projects and processes such as new tool features, new content delivery standards, and more frequent data clean-ups. Two-thirds of affected distributors were migrated to new DDEX.
• Led the charge to create training documents and educate partners in content management tools and processes.

• Established internal and external relationships with distribution partners, Engineering, Legal Counsel, Finance, Support Operations, and Editorial/Marketing teams which sped up resolutions to reported content requests.
• Defined and documented baseline operational procedures for the Content Ops team.
• Investigated reported content issues using content management tools and MySpace.com.
• Managed all deadlines and ensured timely delivery for processing and ingesting content. Over 95 percent of marketing campaigns, promotions and new releases delivered on time for partners.
• Initiated improvement of the content management toolset by working with media engineering and database teams to allow for autonomous troubleshooting of reported issues.
• Aided Content Product team in identifying systemic data integrity issues affecting the MySpace Music catalog.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Enhanced site content by integrating music videos in critical Y! Music News stories to increase engagement.
• Edited and published selected Y! Music blogs.
• Identified library media alongside the editing team for use in upcoming artist segments.
• Fulfilled in-house requests and maintained quality control of physical and digital music library.